Douglas
Post’s
plays, which include Bloodshot, Cynical
Weathers, Drowning Sorrows, Earth and Sky and Murder in
Green Meadows, and musicals, which include God and
Country, The Real Life Story of Johnny de Facto and The
Wind in the Willows, have been produced in New York City, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Canada, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, Estonia, Russia, China and
South Africa. He has also been commissioned to write screenplays for
Warner Bros. and NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of
his scripts. On three occasions, he has been selected to develop his work
at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and once at the O’Neill National
Music Theater Conference. He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger
Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham
Commission Award, the Blue Ink Playwriting Award and three Playwriting
Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for
three Joseph Jefferson Awards, a Suzi Bass Award and an Emmy Award. Post lives
in Chicago where he is president of Long River Records, has composed songs and
incidental music for more than 25 productions, and is an instructor of
playwriting and theatre appreciation at the University of Chicago Graham School,
an institution that recently honored him with an Innovation in Teaching Award.
